Long story short, my husband is a functioning alcoholic. Spends all his money on fags and booze. We’ve been together 30 years. The last 5 or so years I done some self help and I know now (after trying very hard) that I can’t fix him. I must not enable him. I’ve got off the merry-go-round and left him to it although we still live together. We don’t share a room and I often go away on my own and I’m enjoying my life. Its hard watching someone you love destroying themselves slowly. He has a strong family history of alcohol abuse and also heart problems. This week his lifestyle has caught up with him and he had chest pain and an ecg shows something wrong with his heart and he’s been fast tracked to cardiology. Myself and our two grown children are not surprised at all. He seems to have been on a mission for make this happen, like a form of self-harm!
I just wanted to write here with people who will understand that although I love and care for him, he has done this to himself, he knew the risks. I want to carry on my life, I put mine on hold too long and I don’t want to be a carer for him. This has been my main worry over the years. I think when people find out they will feel sorry for him and expect me to be upset as if we are still a couple, but our relationship isn’t like that any more. It’s not that I’m heartless, I’ve just had to detach my self to protect myself. I suppose I’m just feeling anxious that it would be easy to fall back into old habits and try to fix him.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Maybe writing here is a way of setting a boundary with myself that I must not do that for my sake and his. He has to deal with the consequences and fix himself.</p>
Feel better and stronger now I’ve got that off my chest 😄
Thanks for reading.